Looking at Zhu Yujiao, who was shy and silent, Pang Gang only felt a headache.

To be honest, Pang Gang is not a righteous gentleman who eats the past or is loyal and single-minded, when he first came to this era, he was also very yearning for the life of three wives and four concubines, and he also struggled for this goal, which can be seen from the fact that he constantly married Chen Yuanyuan, Ling'er, Qiao'er and others into his family.

But when the goals were achieved one by one and he had a daughter-in-law in the fifth room, he no longer had the original passion for adding new members to the family.

Looking at Zhu Yujiao at this time, he didn't know how to face this beautiful and intelligent princess.

In the end, Pang Gang gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely live up to your expectations and will never let the princess be wronged." ”

This is more than one time Pang Gang has said similar things, but it is the first time that he has said such a solemn thing in front of his parents and family members.

Looking at Pang Gang's slightly reddened face, Chongzhen nodded: "Okay, I believe in your sincerity, as long as you can treat Yu Jiao well, I and her queen mother will have nothing else to ask for." ”

At this time, Chongzhen looked more like a kind father than an emperor, but in fact, not only Chongzhen, but even Empress Zhou looked at Pang Gang with an expectant gaze.

"Nima's, Brother De seems to be a negative man, as for it?"

Just when Pang Gang, who couldn't cry or laugh, didn't know how to deal with this team of parents who were overflowing with father's love and mother's love at this time, a personal soldier hurriedly walked into the hall and came to Pang Gang's side and whispered a few words.

"Li Zicheng was the head, Niu Jinxing was captured alive?"

As Pang Gang's words fell, everyone in the hall exclaimed.

Li Zicheng, who almost beat the Ming Dynasty to death two days ago, was killed by Pang Gang's men and horses?

I saw Chongzhen's surprised eyes staring at Pang Gang in a daze and asking, "Pang Gang, what did you say?" The thief leader Li Zicheng has already been beheaded? ”

Pang Gang quickly recovered from the gaffe just now, nodded and said with a wry smile: "Don't blame the emperor, the minister has just received the news, and its authenticity has not yet been confirmed." Therefore, the minister also needs to "

Before Pang Gang finished speaking, he saw Cheng Kai, who was in charge of guarding the defense of the entire inner city, hurriedly walked in, he walked quickly to Pang Gang's side and said, "Lord Wang, Bin Shiqian asked to see him outside the palace, and claimed to have brought Li Zicheng's head. ”

Although Cheng Kai's voice was not loud, everyone in the hall heard his voice.

Chongzhen's face changed even more quickly, and it took a long time before he sighed: "Pang Aiqing." I didn't expect you to be able to take the head of Li Zicheng's thief so quickly, I don't even know what to say. ”

Yes, Chongzhen didn't know what to say at this moment, he worked hard and mobilized half of the Ming manpower and material resources to deal with the rogue, but he was easily exterminated by Pang Gang, and finally the head of the thief was cut off. With such a comparison between the two, Chongzhen, who has no place to be ashamed, feels that he is incompetent like a fool and an idiot.

Pang Gang also reacted, and he understood Bin Shiqian's mood of atoning for his sins at this time. But this is not a good time to check the head, and the possibility of falsification is too small, and there is no need to rush it. Therefore, he whispered to Cheng Kai, "Let Bin Shiqian go back first, it's not too late for the head to see tomorrow, and also, you go out and tell Bin Shiqian, so that he doesn't have to have any burden, as long as the head is true, then my promise will be valid." ”

"Yes!"

After listening to Pang Gang's words, Cheng Kai also secretly breathed a sigh of relief for Bentshi. This hurdle has finally passed.

After Cheng Kai went out, Chongzhen looked at Pang Gang and sighed: "Fat Aiqing, I am a good talker, since I promised you a Zen position, I will not regret it." So be it. In the next month, that is, on the 15th day of August, I will convene a hundred officials and hold a Zen throne ceremony. ”…,

"Zen Throne Ceremony!"

As soon as I heard this. Pang Gang's eyebrows couldn't help but move, now that Chongzhen has set the date himself, it means that he is one step closer to that throne. He silently calculated in his heart, there are still about forty days before August 15, although he is in a hurry, but it is enough for himself to make basic preparations.

While thinking quickly in his heart, Pang Gang didn't forget to stand up and salute Chongzhen, "Thank you for the emperor's grace...... The news that the Great Tomorrow Son is going to be located in Pang Gang flew in all directions like wiping his wings, and for a while, the world shook, whether it was the Manchu Qing in Liaodong or the border army on the nine sides, or the remnants of Jiangnan led by Hong Chengchou, they were all stunned.

Chan Rang is a form of change of rulers in China, which refers to the relinquishment of the ruling power to others during the reigning monarch's lifetime. Formally, the Zen concession was made voluntarily by the reigning monarch in order to allow more virtuous people to rule the country.

The famous "Zen concession system" in Chinese history began with Shun: Yao Chan was given to Shun, and Shun and Zen were given to the water control hero Yu. The "Zen concession system" became the best excuse for Confucius to reform the system by subordinating himself to the ancients, and it still enjoys a good reputation in history textbooks.

Zen is divided into "outer Zen" and "inner Zen", Outer Zen refers to the monarch to give power to a different surname, inner Zen refers to the power to his own blood relatives with the same surname, Zen Rang is not to treat the power as a private family, to give him to the virtuous people, is an ideal political system, elected by the tribe, so the Zen system is also talked about by scholars and doctors throughout the ages.

But this system since the Chan system was only terminated to the son of Yu, after which he established the first dynasty - the Xia Dynasty, since the Xia Dynasty, the Chan system has never appeared in the land of China, and every change of dynasty since then has been accompanied by countless corpses and blood.

The reason why Pang Gang lowered his posture to accommodate Chongzhen was that he hoped to achieve this goal in a more peaceful and bloodless way, after all, there were enough people who died in Daming at this time.

On the river surface of Jining Prefecture, hundreds of ships are tightly crowded together on the river, and these ships are all uniformly waving the sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty.

Among these ships, there is a relatively large iron building ship, in the cabin of this iron building ship, Hong Chengchou and Cao Huachun are sitting on a low side with sad faces, and at this moment Hong Chengchou is holding a post report that has just come from the capital. Because the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has weakened to an extremely weak point at this time, this kind of post newspaper that was very common in the Taiping period has not been issued to the world for a long time, and now this post newspaper is specially distributed to the state capitals by Pang Gang through his own channels.

Although the post newspaper was only a thin piece of paper, the news written on it almost drove Hong Chengchou and Cao Huachun into the abyss. Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty actually took the Zen position, and the Zen position was given to Pang Gang, an outsider who had no blood relationship with the Ming Dynasty. This news was enough to scare the two of them who claimed to be loyal servants into silly.

"The emperor actually took the throne...... A word that seemed to float from outside the nine heavens floated out of Cao Huachun's mouth, as an old man who has served Chongzhen for more than 20 years, Cao Huachun's loyalty to Chongzhen is beyond doubt, so the first thought he had when he saw this post newspaper was that this was Pang Gang's conspiracy.

But after coming back to his senses, Cao Huachun vaguely felt that this was not like a conspiracy, because no one would be so stupid, thinking that sending a post report would be able to sit on the country, and people without absolute strength could only send this kind of post report to find death.

But Cao Huachun, who came back to his senses, was full of anger in his heart. He thought that Pang Gang must have held the emperor hostage and forced the emperor to abdicate, he cried bitterly with red eyes: "Good you Pang Gang, you dare to do such a rebellious thing, coerce the emperor to abdicate, you deserve death!" Lord Hong, you and I should quickly mobilize troops, open up this passage, and hurry to the capital to save the emperor from fire and water! ”…,

Cao Huachun's last sentence was said to Hong Chengchou. But Hong Chengchou is not as excited as Cao Huachun, and his view of things after decades of experience is more direct to the essence.

I saw Hong Chengchou frowning and said, "Gonggong Cao, don't be impatient for a while." Even if it's as you say. The emperor was held hostage by Pang Gang and was forced to make a decree on the throne, but at this moment the situation in Gyeonggi is different from more than ten days ago, Li Zicheng has already given the head, and at this moment the capital is already the world of Pang Gang, it has been connected with Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, and Pang Gang has 200,000 elite troops in his hands, let alone compete with their army at this moment. It's not easy even if you want to rush across the river in front of you, you say, how can we save the emperor. ”

"Then what do you say, do you just watch the emperor being coerced by the traitor and give up this great country to the rebellious ministers and thieves?"

After seeing Hong Chengchou's attitude. Cao Huachun was anxious, and his voice became louder.

Seeing Cao Huachun so irrational, Hong Chengchou couldn't help frowning and said, "Father-in-law Cao, the matter has come to this, we should carefully discuss countermeasures." Instead of throwing tantrums indiscriminately here. ”

Cao Huachun said with a sharp voice: "Okay, since you said that our family lost their temper, and you Lord Hong are well-informed, then you can tell me, what should we do?" ”

Hong Chengchou didn't answer, just frowned and said nothing, and said after a long time: "Gonggong Cao, according to the foolish opinion of this official, there is no danger for the emperor in the capital now, and the most important thing for us is not to rush to the capital, but to rush back to Nanjing." ”

Cao Huachun asked puzzled, "Why?" Can you give us a reason? ”

"Why? Because of Zuo Liangyu! Hong Chengchou sneered: "If the official's expectation is good, now Zuo Liangyu must have also received this post, Zuo Liangyu was originally unruly and ambitious, and at this moment the official is not in Jinling, and he controls the 100,000 army in the south of the Yangtze River, Gonggong Cao, what do you think he will do if he learns that the emperor wants to take the throne?" ”

"Shhh...... Cao Huachun gasped, as the commander of Dongchang, he was naturally not a stupid person, and naturally heard that Hong Chengchou's words were not untargeted, but very possible. If Zuo Liangyu really learned the news of the emperor's abdication, according to Zuo Liangyu's ambition, the possibility of establishing himself as the king is too great, and he and Hong Chengchou were stopped on the river of Jining Mansion

Cao Huachun couldn't help but have a cold war, and at this time he suddenly realized that if the tens of thousands of troops in the hands of himself and Hong Chengchou were gone, then the last armed force loyal to Daming would probably be wiped out, and Daming would really be over.

Thinking of this, Cao Huachun's tone also softened, and he said weakly: "Then according to what Lord Hong can see, what should we do at this moment?" ”

Hong Chengchou pondered for a while before he said: "The emperor is covered with dust, and the official is also anxious, but we can't mess with ourselves at the moment, otherwise it will not only be useless but will cause a big deal." According to this official's humble opinion, we should immediately return to Jinling at this moment and reorganize the Jiangnan soldiers and horses. When the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, you can wave your army to the north, rescue the emperor, and help me to the Ming Dynasty! ”

Hong Chengchou's words were very subdued and impassioned, and Cao Huachun also felt reasonable after hearing it, he sighed lightly and said: "It's okay, since it is difficult for us to save the emperor from fire and water for a while, we can only temporarily retreat to Jiangnan to accumulate strength." In order to wave the army to the north in the future. ”

Hong Chengchou saw that Cao Huachun agreed with his opinion, and he was secretly happy in his heart, but said quietly: "Since Gonggong Cao also agrees with this official's words, then without further ado, let's return to Nanjing immediately...... Jinling Garrison Mansion

Outside the gate of the Jinling Garrison Mansion are two mighty stone lions, six Ming soldiers with distinct armor with one hand on their waists, and the other hand on the hilt of the waist, looking very majestic, they all stared at the front in unison. …,

Suddenly. The sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and a soldier, who looked like a dusty man, rode his horse from far to near and quickly came to the front of the garrison mansion, only to see him stop his horse in front of the gate of the garrison mansion. Don't stop for a moment.,Quickly run to the house.。

And the Ming soldiers in front of the house did not stop as if they didn't see it, the reason is very simple, because this soldier has a small flag on his back, and the word "order" is written on the small flag.

The soldier ran all the way to the front of the lobby unimpeded, and shouted loudly: "Report to the Beijing Post!" ”

"Come in!" A low, hoarse voice came from the hall.

After the soldier came to the lobby. I saw a rough middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a second-grade military general's costume, sitting at the head of the hall, and looking at him with a sharp gaze, this middle-aged man is the actual controller of Jinling now, "Ping Thief General" Zuo Liangyu. Beside him sat his eldest son Zuo Yuliang and second son Zuo Yuqing.

The soldier hurriedly stepped forward and reported loudly: "Your Excellency General Qiyu, there is a post report from the capital, please take a look." ”

With that, the soldier untied the small package he was carrying behind him and raised his hands above his head.

Then. Immediately, a sergeant took the package and handed it to Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu took the package, waved his hand to let the soldier in front of him let him out, and then untied it and took out the post newspaper and read it, but the more he looked at it, the more he looked at it, the look on his face quickly changed, like surprise and joy, like green and red, it looked very exciting.

Seeing the ever-changing look on Zuo Liangyu's face, Zuo Yuliang, who was sitting on his left, hurriedly asked, "Father, didn't the imperial court cancel the post station a long time ago, why did there be another post report?" ”

Zuo Liangyu didn't answer, and only after reading the post report silently did he say: "There is a big incident in the imperial court!" ”

After speaking, he handed the post newspaper in his hand to Zuo Yuqing, the second son on the right.

Seeing this situation, Zuo Yuliang couldn't help but feel a little annoyed in his heart, his father was too partial to the second child, you must know that he was the eldest son, but the long-term fear of his father made Zuo Yuliang habitually swallow the words that were about to be spoken.

Soon, Zuo Yuqing also finished reading this post report, and the same look as Zuo Liangyu appeared on his face, and he let out a long sigh and said the same words as Zuo Liangyu, "There is a big incident in the imperial court!" ”

"What the hell is going on!"

Zuo Yuliang on the side was anxious, and finally couldn't help shouting.

Zuo Yuqing turned his head and smiled at Zuo Yuliang and said, "Big brother, something big has happened in the court, and the emperor is going to take the throne!" ”

"Zen?" Zuo Yuliang was stunned, he only felt that his head was numb for a while, and he couldn't believe his ears, and asked blankly: "Who does the emperor want to give the Zen throne to?" ”

"It's that Pang Gang!" This time, it was Zuo Liangyu who answered his question, "This post report said that Li Zicheng besieged Gyeonggi, and when he saw that he was in danger, fortunately Pang Gang led the army to arrive, first annihilated the 200,000 army of thieves, and later killed the thief chief Li Zicheng, eradicating my Ming bandits. And the emperor felt that he was immoral and incompetent, and for the sake of the people of the world, he specially ceded the throne to Na Pang Gang. ”

Speaking of this, a mocking smile appeared on Zuo Liangyu's lips, and he sneered: "Hehe Chanrang, this is a major event that has never been seen in thousands of years, I didn't expect the emperor to have such a heart today?" ”

"Hehe, this is just a fig leaf for that Pang Gang." Zuo Yuqing on the side also sneered, "It's just right, since Daming is gone, then no one in Jiangnan can stop the great cause of our father and son, father, according to the child's foolish opinion, this is the opportunity for you to show your ambitions, without the constraints and fame of the imperial court, we can justifiably take Jiangnan into our arms." As long as we can bring the Jiangnan provinces into our pocket, and work hard for a few more years, we can wave our troops north under the banner of King Qin, as long as we defeat that Pang Gang, our Zuo family may not be able to sit in the Forbidden City! ”

Zuo Yuqing's words were full of temptation, it was like a fire, igniting the ambition in the hearts of the Zuo family's father and son, and then turning it into a raging fire...... I'm sorry, I went back to my parents' house today, I didn't return home until six o'clock, and I hurriedly coded a chapter out, please forgive me! RQ

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